Intermedial Serial Metarepresentation in Dickens's ThThe Pickwick Papers

• Autores: Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Camila Khaski Gaglia
• Localización: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, ISSN-e 1481-4374, Vol. 15, Nº. 7, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: New Work in Comparative Literature in Europe), 11 págs.
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Abstract: In their article "Intermedial Serial Metarepresentation in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers" Asunción López-Varela and Camila Khaski Gaglia employ a semiotic perspective in order to establish the intermedial features of the genre of the serial novel. Drawing on Marina Grishakova's distinction between "metaverbal" (an attribute of verbal texts which evoke images) and "metavisual" (an attribute of images which reflect on the incomplete nature of visual representation) the authors explore self-reflexive references as threads to storylines which capture the entire series in one emblematic recurrent image